Re: Exceptional Measures

From: Dick Fischer (dfischer@mnsinc.com)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2000 - 20:01:40 EST

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    Vernon Jenkins wrote:

    >For the particular attention of Glenn, Dick and George:
    >
    >Why not return from the realms of fantasy and look instead at some
    >facts? You appear to have dug your heels in with respect to the truths I
    >have to offer, and clearly are not prepared to give them a second
    >thought. Let me therefore suggest a little numerical tidbit which might
    >offer a way forward:
    >
    >There must be few who will be unacquainted with the simplest application
    >of the Pythagorean theorem, viz the 3:4:5 triangle. Any triangle having
    >sides in these ratios will be found to have a right-angle opposite the
    >longest side. It so happens that the gematrial value of 'the earth' - as
    >rendered in the Hebrew of Genesis 1:1 - is 296. Multiplying this by 3, 4
    >and 5, in turn, we generate the sides 888, 1184 and 1480, respectively,
    >of a right-angled triangle. The features of this triangle include the
    >following:
    >
    >(1) 888 and 1480 are the gematrial values of 'Jesus' and of 'Christ',
    >respectively, from the NT Greek; the shortest and longest sides of our
    >triangle taken together therefore 'spell' the Lord's Name;
    >
    >(2) 1184 is the smaller component of the 'friendly number' pair,
    >1184/1210; in other words, the factors of 1184 (including 1 but
    >excluding 1184 itsef) total 1210, and likewise, those of 1210 total
    >1184; such instances are very rare numerical events - this example being
    >further distinguished by the fact that it had escaped the attention of
    >'friendly number' hunters until the latter years of the nineteenth
    >century;
    >
    >(3) returning to the Lord's Name: the ratio 888:1480, ie 3:5 is, very
    >appropriately, that of the sides of the mercy seat (Ex.25:17);
    >
    >(4) the angle between these sides in our right-angled triangle is, to
    >the nearest degree, 37 degrees; 37 is a factor of all three sides;
    >
    >(5) the area of this triangle is 1,051,392 square units - a multiple
    >of 2368, or 'Jesus Christ'.
    >
    >Now these are verifiable facts (and hardly the stuff of 'numerology'
    >that Glenn keeps alluding to!). They are truths that in my view deserve
    >recognition - indeed, deserve to be pondered. Is it really likely that
    >this remarkable confluence would arise by chance? Doesn't it rather
    >suggest the purposive action of a divine hand? And should we not
    >therefore make it our business - as followers of truth - to investigate
    >further and determine what that purpose might be?
    >
    >You might like to offer your views re this particular example.

    I'm aghast.

    Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
    "The answer we should have known about 150 years ago."



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